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People will just say any kind of old bullshit. Check out this excerpt from this article about the existentialism of Peanuts:

Existence is problematic and disturbing. In one weekend strip, Schulz succinctly describes the horror of discovering one's own existence in the world:

Linus: I'm aware of my tongue ... It's an awful feeling! Every now and then I become aware that I have a tongue inside my mouth, and then it starts to feel lumped up ... I can't help it ... I can't put it out of my mind. ... I keep thinking about where my tongue would be if I weren't thinking about it, and then I can feel it sort of pressing against my teeth ...

Sartre devoted an entire book to this experience--his 1938 novel Nausea in which his character Roquentin is alarmed to discover his own actuality. But Linus sums the point up very well in a few frames.

Now, I'm not saying that the whole thesis is off base; actually it's so right on as to be obvious to me. But come on--Linus was talking about his tongue, for crying out loud. Nothing else.

That's one of my favorite strips, by the way. I hate when I become aware of my tongue. You know how it feels too big for your mouth? I hope that never happens to me agai--

Uh oh.

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This happened right around the corner from the press today. Our intern was coming back from running an errand and saw all the commotion. Gotta love Newhavenburg.

(New Haven) - A manhunt for a man threatening to shoot people on the New Haven Green came to a dramatic end today.

Police had been looking for a U-Haul van believed to be driven by Andrew Leone.

Leone had threatened to start randomly shooting on the crowded in New Haven Green if police didn't release his girlfriend, Julia McKnight, from jail.

Eyewitness News crews spotted the van just as it reached the New Haven Green. It was then that Leone got out of his van and went after one of the crews.

He displayed a gun and attempted to take Eyewitness News reporter Pei Sze Cheng and photographer Chuck Calahan hostage. Calahan was able to wrestle the gun away from Leone and throw it to Cheng. Once in possession of the weapon, Cheng threw it out of the car.

The loss of the gun, however, did not deter the assailant. He proceeded to beat Calahan barehanded until police arrived and subdued him.

Cheng says, "He was relentless! He didn't give up, he tried to beat up Chuck."

Neither Cheng or Calahan suffered any injuries.

video at http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2168596&nav=1VGmPoxn